Inria Chile continues its development in South America. In recent years, with Claude Puech at the helm, she has strengthened her network of contacts and has set up partnerships with investment structures to accelerate the creation of strategies in Chile. Appointed on September 1st as Director, Nayat Sanchez Pi intends to pursue this strategy and implement an ambitious settlement project that includes opening to French partners, the revitalization of the transfer policy and the establishment of a sustainable economic model.

Thirty years ago, the Web was set up to meet an ever-growing need to organise and access information. As a founding member for Europe of the W3C, Inria take a look back at the birth of the Web as both a research subject and a tool, assessing the problems that continue to be raised.

Capitalizing on five years of research-collaboration success, Mitacs and Inria renewed their partnership originally signed in 2014. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) supports two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and at eight Inria Research Centres in France.

The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 "privacy protection" Prize to a European research team. During the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article « Engineering privacy by design reloaded
».

The CCSD (Centre for Direct Scientific Communication) and Software Heritage have announced their collaboration beginning early 2018: it will enable the data repository in HAL to be extended to software and, as a result, contribute to the recognition of the work of research software developers.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

InriaSoft aims for the durable development of large-scale software programs by bringing together their user communities within consortia that will finance a team of engineers tasked with their maintenance and evolution. The InriaSoft headquarters are based in Rennes, as Claude Labit, director, and David Margery, technical director of this national action backed by the Fondation Inria, explain.

Creation of the InBio exploratory action with the Institut Pasteur

Inria / Grégory Batt

On 1 February InBio was created, the result of the collaboration between the Inria Saclay - Île-de-France research centre and the Institut Pasteur. Grégory Batt becomes the head of this exploratory action hosted by the Lifeware team and presents his project: automating the discovery process in biology.

Initially trained in molecular and cellular biology, Grégory Batt, member of the Lifeware, project team, has been working for almost ten years with Pascal Hersen, biophysicist at the Université Paris Diderot, in order to better understand cellular functioning by developing quantitative modelling and measurement approaches."This close collaboration showed me the interest - necessity even - of linking methodological and experimental work in a very precise way,"
Grégory Batt explains.

Interface experts

Research in this field is most often carried out within two different structures - one in charge of experimental questions and the other of methodological issues. A virtuous circle is put in place in which experimental data feeds the development of computer models which, in return, suggest new experiments, generating new data...

Research efforts naturally focus more on obtaining an answer to the specific questions asked than on the implementation process of this virtuous circle.

The aim of InBio is precisely to take this circle and its automation as the main questions to be studied.

"The idea is to facilitate the identification of experimental observation systems and design of experiments in order to characterise the system of interest in an optimal manner, carry out these experiments and use them to improve models of the system. This will then make it possible to suggest the development of another observation system and/or the realisation of another design of experiments."
Grégory Batt explains.

Multidisciplinary research, a specialism in itself?

The usual set-up for research at the interface of two disciplines is that of a collaboration between two distinct entities. The result is naturally multidisciplinary research, i.e. a collaboration between two specialised individuals.

Conversely, the specific structure of InBio and the research that will take place there should facilitate the development of truly interdisciplinary research
, where one person will be in charge of the entirety of the problem studied:

"Given the difficulty of the challenge, which consists in understanding the integrated functioning of cells at molecular level and in a quantitative manner, interdisciplinary approaches today still seem difficult to implement and yet are more necessary than ever"
Grégory Batt underlines.